Testimony of Mania Vinik, born in Teplik, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in Tarasovka, forests, in hiding and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony of Mania Vinik, born in Teplik, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in Tarasovka, forests, in hiding and the Bershad Ghetto From a family of limited means; witness's father is a carpenter; her mother is a seamstress. German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees including white armband with a Jewish star; deportation to Tarasovka; camp life including labor building a road between Uman and Vinnitsa; escape to forests; escape to a village; village life including being hidden in a cellar and afterwards in the attic in the home of a farmer woman; escape to Bershad; ghetto life including contact with partisans and typhus; liberation, March 1944.